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My Eternal Light by Alanea Alder
Rated: 4.74 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsKincaid Bayberry has been serving with the Eta unit since coming of age and only recently feels like he’s a true warrior. With Kendrick’s help, his magic seems to be cooperating for once, and he’s making a difference. But, with a mate on the way and so much at stake, he knows that even a single mistake could result in tragedy, which has skyrocketed his anxiety... -
His Curse to Give by T.S. Joyce
Nash Hudson is on a big job.Bodyguard by day, and werewolf by night, he is climbing the ranks in his Pack. All he has to do is protect his clients, and build his leadership in his Pack, and his life is set. But one chance meeting with a woman on a job has him making decisions he would’ve never made before...Categorized as:
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For the Hope of a Crow by T.S. Joyce
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 33 ratingsRamsey Hunt is caught in a spiral no one can save him from, and he’s taking his entire Clan of crow shifters down with him. A broken mating bond has him going insane, and all he can do is try to hold onto his Alpha position as long as possible. But when a spirited beauty comes waltzing into his MC’s clubhouse demanding an audience with him, he can’t help but think he’s dreaming her up... -
The Bear's Forbidden Love by Harmony Raines
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA mom and her young daughter on the run. A bear shifter with a protective streak.A forbidden love that threatens to keep them apart.When Kay checks in at Bear Creek Lodge, Curtis instantly recognizes her as his mate. There’s just one problem. Kay is already married.The wedding ring on her finger means he can’t declare his love for her, or even tell her they are mates... -
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Axman Werebear by T.S. Joyce
Arranged marriage, hidden agendas, deep secrets, and heart-pounding romance come together to tell Bruiser’s story in the 5th installment of T. S. Joyce’s bestselling Saw Bears series. Diem Daye has led a sheltered life. As the only breeding female of her kind, her father has kept her tucked away and heavily guarded...Categorized as:
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Chased by Anastasia Wilde
Rated: 4.71 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsGabriel Sanchez has never wanted women at Outlaw Ridge. An expert tracker and operative, all he cares about is the mission. Women mean mates, and then cubs, and suddenly dedicated, focused soldiers turn into soft sappy romantics and Little League coaches.Not him. No way.Then Madison Fontaine comes to work at Outlaw Ridge, and suddenly all bets are off...Categorized as:
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Alpha Brock: six-pack series book four by C.J. Primer
SIX-PACK SERIES BOOK FOUR* While this book can be read as a standalone, I highly recommend reading books 1 - 3 (Alpha Gray, Alpha Theo, and Alpha Jax) for context before starting in on this one.* This book is a slow burn with a very moody, broody protagonist (grumpy/sunshine trope). It will be a bumpy ride for these two to get to their HEA...Categorized as:
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Wolf of the Northern Star by S.J. Himes
Ghost, once known as the cub Luca, is finally home. Back among his kind and learning what it means to be both a man and a shaman, Ghost battles the expectations of his people, his family, and the pressures of a society that is both foreign and familiar... -
The Bear's Unexpected Mate by Harmony Raines
Rated: 4.71 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsThe Bear's Unexpected MateClint never expected to find his mate. But he was wrong... -
Alpha Theo by C.J. Primer
SIX-PACK SERIES BOOK TWO* While this book can be read as a standalone, I highly recommend reading book one (Alpha Gray) for context before starting in on this one.* This book is very different from book one- it's a slow burn, and it's a very bumpy ride. You've been warned! I'm next in line to be the alpha of my pack, but my father doesn't think I'm ready...Categorized as:
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King of the Asheville Coven by T.S. Joyce
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 27 ratings****King of the Asheville Coven can be read as a standalone Vampire Romance, or as a spinoff of T. S. Joyce's International Bestselling Harper's Mountains series**** Aric Teague is the king of the local coven, and trying to do a better job than the last leader. Add to that a new job at the Winterset Fire Department, and the last thing he needs is to complicate his life further...Categorized as:
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Feral Shifter Unhinged by Olivia T. Turner
Rated: 4.49 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsMy two favorite things:1. Hunting feral shifters2. Executing feral shifters.When I was young, a rabid feral bear slaughtered my entire pack and I've spent my life trying to right that wrong.I'm a lone wolf now, hellbent on revenge.I've eliminated dozens of bears over the years, but this last one is proving to be tricky.For the first time ever, I'm hesitating.It's not because of him...Categorized as:
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Alpha Jax by C.J. Primer
SIX-PACK SERIES BOOK THREE* While this book can be read as a standalone, I highly recommend reading book one (Alpha Gray) and book two (Alpha Theo) for context before diving into this book. I'm no stranger to one night stands. Lots of girls want to hook up with an alpha, so why should this one be any different? Maybe it's because she was the best I ever had...Categorized as:
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Maid for the Bear by Harmony Raines
Rated: 4.61 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsShe’s a forty-something single mom working as a maid. He’s a billionaire bear shifter.Maggie isn’t looking for anything other than a fresh start in a new town after a messy divorce from her cheating husband. Until she meets Quincy, a man who offers her love and loyalty.But she’s heard that before.However, Quincy soon convinces Maggie he is the one for her... -
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Nikolai's Beloved by Taylor Rylan
Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsWhen fate doesn’t get it right the first time, second chances at love are a true blessing you didn’t know you needed.As the master of his coven, Nikolai Cardello was happy to watch his vampires finally be blessed with their fated mates. Despite having had a chance at a love that wasn’t meant to be, he had a fulfilling life, and his adopted son had given him the family he’d always dreamed about...Categorized as:
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Snake Believe by Karla Doyle
Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsCORASent to Screaming Woods to write a fluff piece on its resident monsters, I'm ready to meet hairy beasts, ogres, vampires… Heck, I even have an interview scheduled with an actual invisible man. What I'm not prepared for? A snake man. I'm terrified of snakes...Categorized as:
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Bitten Shifter by Brogan Thomas
Betrayed, shattered, and transformed. Sick of everyone’s crap, can this snarky lone wolf find belonging, respect, and love?Lark Emerson vaguely remembers being happy. After catching her husband and her sister in the sack, the IT professional walks away from twenty-seven years of marriage and takes a job on the border of a shifter community...Categorized as:
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The Azar Omnibus by Grace McGinty
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAzar Nazemi is a firefighter with an ancient secret; she is Ifrit. A race of Djinn, or Genies as they are known to Westerners, the Ifrit can read a fire and mold it to their will. That makes her job a whole lot easier...Categorized as:
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Ravens of Winter by Eva Chase
Love bound her to three possessive fae men... but fate has other plans.A happily ever after with my summer fae men was within our reach... until the Heart of the Mists tied me to one of the foreboding winter arch-lords.I can't escape the connection between us. The enemy can speak from right within my soul...Categorized as:
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The Breed Next Door by Lora Leigh
Lyra’s neighbor can’t be for real. A man who makes her hormones stand up and scream every time she sees him. And he’s breaking through her reserve to invade her dreams at night. But Tarek Jordan is even more than he seems. A Breed Enforcer with a plan. First, find the Council Trainer he’s tracked to Fayetteville, Arkansas, and second, claim the woman next door as his own...Categorized as:
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Cute But Prickly by Zoe Chant, Lauren Esker
Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsAn alternative cover edition can be found here Too prickly to love? After getting her heart broken, hedgehog shifter Hester just wants to get away from romance for the Valentine's Day weekend. Instead she ends up snowbound in a gorgeous mountain lodge with the most amazing man she's ever met. He's sexy. He's sweet. He's funny...Categorized as:
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Fake Date Mate by Harmony Raines
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsIt was meant to be a fake date. Instead, he found his real mate.Bear shifter Rory reluctantly agrees to be the fake date for a friend of a friend. It’s one night. One night when he can forget how lonely he is. One night where he can dance with a woman and have fun.Or at least pretend to have fun, since fun is not his thing. Not when his heart yearns for the woman of his dreams.His mate...Categorized as:
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Destiny Disgraced by Carrie Ann Ryan
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe Talon Pack continues with a new twist to the Packs and a revelation no one was prepared for. Mitchell Brentwood is aware that others think he’s the harsh taskmaster Beta trying to keep his Pack alive, but they only see what he wants them to know...Categorized as:
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Ghosting the Griffin by Violet Rae
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWhen the lines are blurred between the dead and the livingCan love find a way for a ghost and a griffin?GalinaWhen I drank the “harmless” punch at the Screaming Woods annual Halloween party, I never expected to wind up dead. Other townspeople grew tails and claws. Not me. Nope. I’m trapped in a realm between life and death. Doomed to wander in search of a cure for the curse...Categorized as:
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Tempted by the Wolf by Lola Glass
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsAll I did was pick up an extra shift at work...And it was the best mistake I've ever made.Because I ran right into the chest of a sexy guy on my way out of the kitchen, and he turned into a wolf.As it turns out, werewolves are real, and they're just as hot as every indie romance book I've ever read has said.And this one has decided I'm his mate... -
Wild Rain by Christine Feehan
#1 New York Times bestselling author Christine Feehan explores the dark past of a woman on the run—and her dark desire for the only man she dares to trust—in this wild novel in the Leopard series. With a new identity, a staged death, and a chance to flee the treachery that stalks her, Rachel has escaped from a faceless assassin...Categorized as:
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Wolf on the Hunt by N.J. Walters
In the hunt for love, there’s no going halfway. Salvation Pack, Book 5 Drawn to Salvation by her passion for nature, Gray Everson’s looking forward to some peace and quiet to work on her paintings. She didn’t expect hunters shooting up the forest around the cabin she rented. And she certainly didn’t expect to find a wounded wolf... -
Doctor Dragon's Fake Bride by Brittany White
A dragon shifter must fake a proposal with his virgin neighbor, to save her from a forced marriage.The Virgin MateMy family wants to trade me like a piece of property.And force me to marry a cruel man who only wants my virginity.I flee, and find refuge in Texas.I get lucky, because my next-door neighbor is a sexy doctor...Categorized as:
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RedKnife by Susan A. Bliler
Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsCindy Sambrano hates her life. She lives in a crappy little house, drives a crappy little car, and has a crappy younger brother, Cody. After their parents’ death, she feels compelled to take care of him, to try to keep him on the straight and narrow, but--as usual--he’s messed up again. Owing a huge debt some seriously bad dudes, Cindy’s brother needs help getting the cash...Categorized as:
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Tiger’s Runaway Bride by Brittany White
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsHiding from a monster, I found heaven.As the eldest daughter of the alpha, I was promised to be a powerful wolf shifter. How was I to know that beneath the exterior of this handsome man was the devil? On the eve of our mating ceremony, I saw the beast come out of hiding. I did the only thing that I could think of – I ran... -
Cole by Emilia Hartley
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsHe guards a secret. She means to discover it.Cole Barton is a sentry, living alone at the edge of a lake, keeping away all who would run afoul of the monster that lurks beneath its depths. At least, he keeps all away until Jude Drake arrives and refuses to be run off...Categorized as:
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Porsha's Wolf by Dria Andersen
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsHe had one night to convince her...Porsha Clark just wants to get through her best friend's wedding without bringing drama to Mercedes' big day...but, that didn't mean she couldn't enjoy herself afterwards...right?Victor Davis was a man who got what he wanted, and he wanted Porsha...and one night would never be enough.*This is re-release...Categorized as:
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Iron by Terry Bolryder
Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars · 22 ratingsA Dragon Mechanic? Unheard of. Unless you're Magnus Ironside, a metal dragon who just awakened in the modern world and happens to be obsessed with cars and their inner workings. Add in the fact that his mate just walked in to hire him to work at her auto shop, and Magnus is one happy dragon. Now he just has to flex his pecs, show her his huge 'axe', and everything will work out, right? Wrong... -
Cursed Bear by Harmony Raines
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsTwenty-five years ago, Cath’s husband walked out of her life, leaving her to raise two sons alone. She threw herself into raising her boys and showered them with love. Her sense of betrayal ran deep. After all, Hector had told her they were true mates, fated to be together forever. Now, another man is telling her the same thing... -
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Michael & Shyne by R.E. Butler
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 22 ratingsMichael Gerrick was beginning to wonder if he would ever find his truemate. Fate seemed to smile on him, when he fell hard for the delectable fitness instructor, Shyne. The only problem: three were-hyenas want her for their clan and are willing to do anything to get him out of the way. Shyne Jackson was smitten with Michael from the moment they met...Categorized as:
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Trapping Quincy by Nicole Riddley
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsHe teases her. He challenges her. He fascinates her while he irritates her like no other. He drives her insane. He makes her...ughh, so mad she could scream! The only thing he won't do is let her go.Quincy: I'm a human living among the werewolves. My mom is a werewolf. She had drunken fun one night with a stranger, a human. The union was not supposed to bear offspring... -
Tolerated by the Sigma by Lola Glass
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsAll I did was lock myself in the gas station's bathroom...It seemed like the logical thing to do, considering the crappy way my date had gone, and the fact that said crappy date had tried to attack me.But then my date broke the bathroom door down.Luckily, a scarred, inked-up werewolf was there to save the day. He punched my date's lights out...And then called me "mate" and started to hunt me...Categorized as:
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Wish Upon A Bear by Harmony Raines
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsCurvy girl Zara is used to working over the Holidays. The pay is good, and it fills the lonely hours, when everyone else is celebrating with their family. This year is different. As a newly qualified teacher, she’s given herself a Christmas vacation. So, when she is invited by her old friend Dylan and his family, to spend the holidays in Bear Bluff, she agrees... -
Ambrosius by Taylor Rylan
When you’re the created vampire, and discover your fated mate is a dominant dragon alpha, what could go wrong?Master Ambrosius was created over a millennium ago and had come to terms with spending his life alone. He has his coven, his second, and a few close friends, but he continues to be haunted by the memory of his fated mate running from him in terror...Categorized as:
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Taught by the Dragon by Jessie Donovan
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsA dragonwoman who doesn’t know how to shift, a single dad struggling after an injury, and a student/teacher relationship that turns into something more… After spending seven years as a prisoner inside an illegal dragon research facility, Persephone “Percy” Smith is rescued by Clan Stonefire and taken back to their land...Categorized as:
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Black Bear Down by Harmony Raines
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhen his army helicopter crashes in the Himalayas, killing his comrades, Jordan Williams loses much more than his friends. He loses the use of his legs, and his bear. Two months later, he is transferred to Bear Bluff, where he grew up, but he isn’t interested in life. Not until Skyla walks into his hospital room. She’s his mate... -
Who Bears Wins by Harmony Raines
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhen bear shifter, Caleb, meets Zoe, he realizes returning to Bear Bluff is not a choice, it’s a necessity. One look at his mate and he’s ready to settle down and start a family—with an emphasis on practicing baby making, of course. In fact, he’s willing to start making babies right now… But Zoe isn’t sure that’s what she wants. At all... -
Matteo's Whirlwind by Taylor Rylan
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsHow could fate match Matteo with a less than ethical alpha?Matteo Romano isn’t like the others. He had a happy family growing up, yet Master Nikolai welcomed him into the coven family without question. Time and again, he’s proven his abilities, even if he’s the shortest and smallest vampire in the coven, thanks to his fae mother... -
The Alpha Wolf's Human Mate by Brittany White
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAfter her mate lied to her for months, she vowed never to trust him again. The Human Nurse After my ex-fiancé lied to me and cheated on me, I left Louisiana for good. I moved far away from my home, all the way up to Anchorage, Alaska. Starting over was tough, but I was committed to my new life. I knew I could be happy without a man. But I wasn’t single for long... -
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Bonded Beyond Belief by Ember Davis
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsCREWI’ve never been the lovestruck male waiting around for the hand that fate has dealt to bring me my mate. That doesn’t mean I didn’t want to find the other half of my soul because I did. The more years that have passed, while I witness more of my packmates finding their mates, loneliness has become a bitter pill to swallow...Categorized as:
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Vanity and other Monsters by T.J. Nichols
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsAll the lines of fate have been pulling Edra Tendric to LA. It is the last place he wants to go, leaving his mate Inspector Jordan Kells in San Francisco to deal with a fractured mytho population and an increasingly tense political situation. Someone wanted Edra removed as Mytho Liaison, and they got their way... -
Werewolves Only by Carrie Pulkinen
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsWhen the alpha's love for his fated mate is forbidden, he'll risk everything to hold her. Detective Macey Carpenter has been on the trail of a vicious attacker for weeks, with nothing more than a vague description of a red-eyed man to go on. She has no clue she’s hunting demons, and if the evidence doesn’t stop disappearing, she’ll never solve the case... -
Purrfectly Mated by C.D. Gorri
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsTagline: He’s the leader of his pride, she’s a normal with no idea Shifters exist. Can Hunter convince Elissa she’s his purrfect mate? Synopsis: The leader of the Maverick Pride needs a mate and who better to help him out than the incomparable Gerri Wilder! Hunter Maverick is having trouble keeping his Tiger under control...Categorized as:
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The Onyx Covenant by Mila Young
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsHE ONCE REJECTED HER HEART. NOW HE HUNTS FOR IT.Lyra Mooncrest swore she’d never forgive Theron Shadowmane—the wolf shifter who shattered her soul and left her bleeding.Now, with the Harvest Ritual looming, she’s forced into enemy territory, tasked with uncovering ancient magic that could save her dying pack...Categorized as:
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Wicked Howl by Celia Kyle
Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsCan cats and dogs get along? Maybe. What about werelions and werewolves? If it’s Tilly and Mitchell, definitely. Or rather, maybe. If he’d just get his head out of his… Half-werelion Tilly McBride owns Bless Your Tart, the South’s latest and greatest bakery. Or at least the best one in Georgia. Fine. It’s the best in Wilder, Georgia, mainly because it’s the only one...
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